Girly Girl Socks

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Snap tray

Woke up far too early this morning and made a snap tray for my niece.  She's off to Japan on Saturday and these trays are so handy when traveling. 

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More border work

I was felled by the rampant oak pollen this weekend but managed to sit quietly and stitch on the borders!  I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Runners from the Shop Hop

I actually bought kits for these at two different shops during the All Texas Shop Hop.  I love the teapot fabric and the yellow roses just shined with the gold border fabric.  I'm trying to find the right buttons for the teapot one.  I need two and I found *one* perfect button in my stash.

Slow but steady progress

My this is a terrible photo!  Making progress on the second Girly Girl sock.

Well at least. . .

I got stuck in a traffic jam behind an accident for two hours . Fortunately I had my cross stitch with me. At least my borders met!!

Goal for the week

My goal for the week is to meet the borders as shown here. I really hope they meet or there will be language!  I really need to get this gingham border finished so I can go back to filling in the fun stuff in the blocks.

Socks!

I finished DH's Anniversary socks!  He is very pleased with them and is impressed by how they match.  I did not do this on purpose-it is totally the yarn!  Yarn was Supergarne Aktiv Sock yarn 4-ply superwash 100g/459yd Bergen #377-78. 

A little stitching

Red let me do a little boro inspired sashiko stitching on his denim jacket!  I love having a son that likes stitching!

February block

February block for the Saturday Sampler. I picked the wrong fabric at one point so I had to use my ooops kit.  I also managed to cut the dark blue points wrong so I had to hit the oooops kit again!

Some sewing

I cut and sewed on the stop border for the baby quilt.  I had planned to add a blue focus fabric border-wasn't sure on the width-but when I looked I had just enough blue left for the binding.  I'm going to do a slightly wider binding.  Quilt top is about 46 square which should fit nicely on some orange minky!

This next bit is in-progress.  It's the Parsonsfield QAL that Lori at Humble Quilts started in 2023.  I cannot find the darn fabric I bought from her expressly for this QAL so I started with some other fabric I had bought from her.  I also pulled a bunch from my Civil War stash.  Next up is a mess of four patches that are 2.5 square!

Anniversary

I'm knitting a pair of socks for DH.  Our 20th anniversary is coming up.  I'm trying to knit these without him noticing so my son started calling them Illicit socks!

Missing? Lost??

 I really hate it when I misplace a project.  I'm currently missing two.

The first is the Texas Lightning Cowl. I'm knitting it with Independence Wool Texas Tweed that I bought from Hill Country Weavers.  I started knitting it for my great-aunt but had to put it aside when I found out about her death. (edited to add: I found this knitting in my beach bag.  I have no idea when I took this project to the beach!)

The second project is Sunflowers and Scarecrows by Jan Patek.  The pattern appeared in Primitive Quilts and Projects but I think I bought a kit from Jan.  I decided to embroider all over the quilt top and I put it aside when I was having trouble getting my angle right on a stem.  I think I had it out last summer??? No idea where it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Turban for a friend

I knit this turban for a friend at work who is going thru the cancer ringer. The pattern is Lindy's Knitted Turban Chemo Hat.  I used my friend's preferred yarn Loops and Threads which is an acrylic yarn.  I would have preferred to use Plymouth Encore but my friend can't handle wool.   I changed up the pattern to worsted weight yarn on size 8 needles over 70 sts.  (Note to self: do the darn swatch, okay?) 4 stitches to the inch.

I wish I had used sport weight for this turban as I'm worried it will be too warm for my friend.  I really hope she likes it.  She's a beekeeper so that's why I used yellow and black.

Hot Mess!

I started these on Christmas Day.  I used Hot Mess yarn from Beach Bum Yarn on etsy.  Knit on size 1 needles with my usual sock recipe.  

I really enjoyed the NBK part of these socks.  So much so that I knit past where to start the heel on the second sock AND knit past where to start the toe on the second sock.  Ah well.

I'm working on getting my two timeout projects going and I need to start a pair of socks for DH.

First finish of 2025

I made some fingerless gloves or muffatees for my niece.  I used worsted weight Plymouth Encore.  This is my favorite yarn for things I know will get machine washed.  The yarn is mostly acrylic (75 % acrylic, 25% wool) but it is nice to knit.  Very squeezable.